What is another word for constraints?

Pronunciation: [kənstɹˈe͡ɪnts] (IPA)

There are various synonyms for the word "constraints" that can be used to express the same meaning in different ways. Some commonly used synonyms for constraints include restrictions, limitations, hurdles, impediments, obstacles, and restraints. Each of these synonyms emphasizes a slightly different aspect of the concept of constraints. For instance, "restrictions" connotes rules or regulations that limit what one can do, while "obstacles" suggests challenges that must be overcome. "Hurdles" emphasizes the difficulty involved in clearing an obstacle, while "restraints" implies something holding one back. Whatever the phrasing used, constraints refer to anything that restricts or limits one's freedom of action or range of possibilities.

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Usage examples for Constraints

The anonymity of life in large urban centers tended to remove many of the social constraints to individual behavior.
"The Black Experience in America The Immigrant Heritage of America"
Norman Coombs
When I contemplate these things; when I know that the Colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me.
"Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America"
Edmund Burke
You have complimented me on my beauty; I congratulate you upon yours, and I am surprised that you have so kept and preserved it in the midst of the constraints and servitude that grandeur and greatness involve.
"The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Volume VI. Being the Historic Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV."
Madame La Marquise De Montespan

Famous quotes with Constraints

  • Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
    Confucius
  • Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
    Arthur Erickson
  • But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.
    Paul Farmer
  • Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.
    Andrew Greeley
  • Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.
    Chuck Hagel

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